To His Coy Mistress is a classic poem that follows the three act structure about a man trying to convince a woman to make love to him if they had energy and time. There are many themes in this short three stanzas, time, lust, death, freedom and confinement, these are all told through basic figurative language. In the poem there are many forms of speech condensed in there, simile is the most basic of figurative language as defined by “a figure of speech to compare a thing to a different thing” in To His Coy Mistress the line “Sits on thy skin like morning dew (Line 34)” can be interpreted as how he enjoys his current youth and wants to live in it to its fullest extent and use it to spend one happy moment with this nameless woman he met. Another
